Philip French 

How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire – review

A documentary about a man's bid to reclaim his family's old vodka business in Ukraine is touching but slight, writes Philip French
  
  


In this faux-naïf documentary, Daniel Edelstyn records, and in part dramatises, the story of his well-off Jewish family, who left Russia after the 1917 revolution and began life again in Britain. The discovery of his grandmother's diary encouraged him to visit Ukraine, where he reclaimed the family's vodka factory and went back into business. A slight, touching film.

 

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